Tissue Manufacturing Shift Lead - Drive Ops Excellence

Georgia-Pacific; Pennington (AL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a qualified Shift Leader to lead our tissue manufacturing team at the Pennington facility. You will oversee 15-30 hourly associates and coordinate with the Department Operations Team to drive operational excellence and long-term value.

The position emphasizes principled leadership, ownership-based work, and the development of capability across performance, skills, and qualifications, with accountability for personnel and administrative functions.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership experience within a manufacturing or military environment.
• Experience using computer software and business systems to track information, generate reports, and communicate operational data.
• Experience being responsible for the performance of direct reports.

Responsibilities

• Effectively lead, mentor, supervise, coach, and develop hourly associates within the assigned department utilizing the Principle-Based Management Guiding Principles and Operational Excellence tools to improve capability and performance.
• Lead and foster an environment that develops principled business owners in an Ownership-Based Work system (OBWS) who can identify learning/development solutions and optimize equipment.
• Lead development and implementation of Performance, Skills, and Qualifications capability.
• Address performance gaps for Master Techs and Technicians and measure performance across the work platform.
• Handle administrative functions to include payroll, time keeping, attendance, performance evaluations, and other required administrative human resource functions.
• Ensure that individual roles, responsibilities, and expectations (RR&E’s) are aligned with mill and organizational goals to assure maximizing real long‑term value for the company.
• Regularly execute Leader Standard Work to inspect what is expected of the team.
• Hold team and individuals accountable for operating strategies and results.
• Develop processes and systems that promote the transfer of knowledge to all team members.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineers and other salaried leaders within the department to ensure master tech/technician performance gaps are identified and addressed.
• Serve as the incident command for conducting critical communications to all necessary resources when required.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Performance tracking

Report generation

Job description

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a qualified Shift Leader to lead our tissue manufacturing team at the Pennington facility. You will oversee 15-30 hourly associates and coordinate with the Department Operations Team to drive operational excellence and long-term value.

The position emphasizes principled leadership, ownership-based work, and the development of capability across performance, skills, and qualifications, with accountability for personnel and administrative functions.